23 September 2016 – Six candidates have been proposed by WHO Member States for the post of the Organization’s next Director-General. The Director-General is WHO’s chief technical and administrative officer, overseeing th…
Read moreFirst AVAREF TCC and SC Meetings, held in Kigali, Rwanda, 20–23 September 2016 The AVAREF Steering Committee (SC) plays an important role in the development and review of technical documents for use by ethics committe…
Read more20 September 2016, NEW YORK - The Presidents of France and South Africa today called for urgent investments globally to create new jobs in the health sector in order to prevent a projected shortfall of 18 milli…
Read moreThe Ministry of Health and Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) with support from WHO and UNICEF convened a three day training at Paradise Hotel on the Nile, Jinja to adopt the tools, norms, standards and guidance for medi…
Read moreBRAZZAVILLE, 6 September 2016 – The largest emergency vaccination campaign against yellow fever ever attempted in Africa, came to an end on 5 September 2016 with more than 10.6 million people in the Democratic Repub…
Read moreBrazzaville, 2 September, 2016 – A toolkit aimed at helping both health and non-health professionals to better address the root causes of what makes people sick or healthy has been launched by the World He…
Read moreThis issue focuses on yellow fever, cholera, the humanitarian crisis in Nigeria and South Sudan and Rift Valley fever in Niger. During the period under review, there have been urban Yellow Fever (YF) outbreaks in Ango…
Read moreThe biggest emergency yellow fever vaccination campaign ever held in Africa is underway in Democratic Republic of the Congo. With high risk of transmission of the mosquito-borne disease in the densely populated capital c…
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